Re: A newbie's view

["Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>]

>    Bloat that could itself go in a module loaded only when needed,
> gaining the user a safety net if he forgets an essential module and
> possibly opening an avenue for hardware vendors to put a Linux module
> on their CDs without the versioning problems that make it impossible
...
>    (I probably shouldn't even mention that it may just give them
> an opportunity to produce a non-GPL module, although the performance
> difference would be incentive to help in the development of a freely
> distributable version too.  No, I definitely shouldn't mention that.
> :-)

Non-GPL is tolerable if we force such modules to use Java.
The kernel would need a JVM to support it of course.

(if we lack source, we must enforce cross-platform bug-free code)
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